Flashy cars, chainsaws, cross-legged coffees and botox before 40: The everyday dangers specialist doctors say they avoid
Their medical careers have influenced the risks they are willing to take.
It might be cutting up a grape, avoiding kids and horses or settling for a 1956 Morris Minor instead of a flashy car.
Doctors see stuff most other people don’t, which can have an indelible impact on the everyday risks they are willing to let themselves, or their loved ones, take.
When The Guardian asked 12 specialists in the UK to nominate what their medical career had taught them to avoid, the answers were practical, wise and moving.
For plastic surgeon Dr Naveen Cavale, chainsaws, motorcycles, drinking coffee cross-legged, botox before 40, Brazilian butt lifts and fire in general are among a long list of activities out of bounds as a result of his career.
